Announcing Apache Pivot 1.5

I am happy to announce the release of Apache Pivot 1.5! Apache Pivot (http://pivot.apache.org) is a platform for building rich Internet applications (RIAs) in Java. It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform. Pivot 1.5 includes a number of improvements intended to help improve the overall application development experience: Significantly improved data binding Data binding is now supported across a much larger collection of components and properties. In addition, a BindType enum was added to allow a caller to control the bind direction (either load, store, or both). New pub/sub API A publisher/subscriber API was added to the ApplicationContext class to facilitate decoupled messaging within a Pivot application. New SuggestionPopup component Pivot 1.5 includes a new component that simplifies the task of adding "auto-complete" or "lookup" functionality to a TextInput. This component can also be used to provide "combo box"-like behavior in an application. See the Suggestion Popups section of the Pivot tutorial for an example. Form improvements The Form component in Pivot 1.4 and earlier releases wasn't quite as usable as it could have been. This component has been completely overhauled in Pivot 1.5 - flagged fields are much more prominent, and flag icons are now...

Date: June, 08 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/2010/06/03/announcing-apache-pivot-15

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